DRAGON  ch. H, PONY OF AMERICAS, 1946
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Height: lp
DRAGON—DUNN BROTHERS PROGRAM
The most well-known registered POA of Mexican ancestry is the POA Hall of Fame stallion Dragon #103, bred/owned by Rafael Nieves of McAllen, Texas, and later of Guadalajara, Mexico (as per POA stud books). Pat Mefferd research says that the stallion may have been known as “Dragon”, “The Dragon” and even “Dragoon”. The POA Stud Book shows he was later owned by Hunt’s Triple H Ranch, Fairfield, Iowa. It is not sure when the Dunns acquired the unregistered stallion, but another version of the story of Dragon, shows that Nieves was actually the importer of the stallion, and that he went directly to the Dunns (D-D Ranch). Somewhere along the line, the unregistered stallion “The Dragon” was owned by Rosemary La Due, of Garland, Texas, in 1955 (was he sold by the Dunns ??), which brings up the possibility that “Dragon” and “The Dragon” could be different horses.Dragon, Dragoon, and The Dragon can also be found as sires of registered Appaloosas. Dragon was heavily used in the Dunn Brothers (Ellis E., C.J., Roy, and Ernest C.) POA program.
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